Disability
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Sexual Autonomy Ain’t Schizophrenia: Deconstructing Bynum’s Ableist Rhetoric in “No More Sheets Pt. 2”
By Jade Perry Last Monday a good friend sent Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets Part 2” via inbox with the caption, “She’s baaaaack.” I clicked...
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Yank and Pull
By Keshia Scott “Stop! Here, let me help you.” Your hand clenches around my arm and yanks me away from the stairs. You turn me...
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Staying on the Battlefield: The Feminist Wire Statement on the Election
The Feminist Wire is fundamentally committed to intersectional truth-telling. We are uncompromising in this, and we will name the damage. We are not the mainstream...
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We Can’t Let After Tiller Slide
By Viki Peer I was so excited to attend a university-wide screening of After Tiller, the 2013 Emmy-winning documentary about the four remaining doctors who...
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My Disability is a Joke
By Caddie Alford What if your disability were just a punchline? Online at The New York Times Opinion, they’re thinking about disability. Funny how quickly...
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Social Silence & Child Sexual Abuse
Please, give us our reparations if you knew that someone was hurting us and we couldn’t cry out for ourselves. Please check on us, make...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Repression and Inequality in the California State University Health Clinic
By Chris Arreola Last year, I visited the San Francisco State University (SF State) Student Health Services center to receive testing for sexually transmitted...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Dear Communities: In Lieu of a Conclusion to the “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival
Dear Communities: We are grateful for your engagement with this Forum over these past two and half weeks—reading, comments, and sharing with others. Your interest...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, An Introduction to the “Collective Voice of the Voiceless” Forum on Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival
By Mick Powell and Heather M. Turcotte, Associate Editors “The collective voice of the voiceless is still one of the most powerful tools of...
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Complexities and Messiness: Race, Gender, Disability and the Carceral State (Part II)
By Carolyn Tyjewski The BlackLivesMatter movement was founded on the premise that we should centralize the most marginalized within the Black liberation movements of old....
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Complexities and Messiness: Race, Gender, Disability and the Carceral State (Part I)
By Carolyn Tyjewski I’ve been an activist for decades, and always intentionally (and sometimes not) at the intersections of communities that are fighting similar battles. Whether...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Forum Submissions on Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival DUE 6/1/15
PLEASE SEND IN YOUR SUBMISSIONS!! TODAY: JUNE 1, 2015 Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the College Feminisms Forum! Please continue to share...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A History of Lipstick
By Zoe Handler I fall in love for the first time. My partner sighs when my kisses leave faint red lipstick marks on their...
